So far the domain classes to be added to the mapping context initially were added in afterPropertiesSet() of InitializingBean. This had the drawback that although the MappingContext is already set up properly the actual listeners of the events fired (e.g. index creating ones) might not have been set up properly. We list to the ContextRefreshedEvent indicating the entire ApplicationContext being set up completely. Thus all infrastructure components are set up properly and the timing issues doesn't exist anymore.